Confidential Assignment2: International, Topped the Weekend Box Office for 3 Consecutive Weeks

The comedy action film Confidential Assignment2: International, starring Hyun Bin and Yoo Haijin, topped the weekend box office for 3 consecutive weeks. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), Confident...

Confidential Assignment2: International, Topped the Box Office During the 2022 Chuseok Holiday

The film Confidential Assignment2: International ran alone during the Chuseok holiday, attracting 2.83 million viewers. According to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS) of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) on September 13 (Tuesday), Confidential Ass...

An Unexpected Jackpot

Box Office Report of 2017 The Korean film market reached new all-time benchmarks for income and admissions in 2017 after a strong December rally. Yet the real story behind the numbers was which unexpected films got audiences the most excited while several seem...

THE SWINDLERS Makes Away with Box Office Crown

Theaters saw a slight uptick this weekend as students celebrated the end of the college entrance exams which had been delayed a week due to an earthquake in the Pohang region. All told, almost two million tickets were snatched up over the frame as a hot new lo...

JUSTICE LEAGUE Assembles at Top of the Charts

Much as it has elsewhere around the world, one of the year’s biggest blockbusters posted a smaller than expected debut in Korea, during a weekend where admissions were marginally down week-on-week. Nevertheless, the Hollywood tentpole drove the US market share...

Stranger Than Fiction: Politics & History Inspire Cinema

The Korean box office has had a rocky ride through the first two trimesters of 2017, but this period was not without its success stories. Though controversies and an uneven slate of films presented some obstacles, Korean history remained a strong driver for pr...

THE BATTLESHIP ISLAND Drowns Out the Competition

The high summer season truly kicked off this past weekend with the release of the year’s biggest Korean film. Admissions rose 60% over last week to crack 4 million but remained behind last year’s comparable figure by about 20%. Local films took back the market...

Box Office Report for the first quarter of 2017

The first quarter of 2017 was one of few surprises at the Korean box office but one which demonstrated the industry’s stability, both as a global exhibition market and a local production industry. Though not quite reaching the highs of 2013 (55.47 million) or ...

NEW TRIAL Extends Streak of Local Chart-Toppers

A new Korean film topped the chart in a weekend that was almost level with the previous week, as two thirds of tickets sold once again went to local fare, out of a total 2.22 million sold. Court drama New Trial, with KANG Ha-neul and JUNG Woo, from OPUS Pictur...

FABRICATED CITY Builds Over CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT

Business remained level with last week as the Lunar New Year titles finally ceded the top spot on the chart to a new release. Local films were the top draw with a two third share of the 2.4 million entries recorded over the frame. CJ Entertainment remained in ...